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Always showing excitement about gold (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

forever

'always' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'excitement about gold' is the wordplay.
'excitement' becomes 'fever' (fever is a kind of excitement).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'gold' becomes 'or' ('or' is the heraldic name for gold).
'fever' placed around 'or' is 'FOREVER'.

'showing' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for forever that I've seen before include "Till hell freezes over" , "always" , "as diamonds are" , "till Doomsday" , "continually" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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